Semi-retired small-fleet owner Lynn DeNeve started his DeNeve Enterprises LLC business 33 years ago, but trucking wasn’t on his radar at the time. It was a mowing and lawn care operation back then, eventually expanding into removal.
Yet he was also working the family farm, which needed a truck to haul grain. “That’s how I got started in my first truck,” he said.
DeNeve has now been in the trucking business pulling hopper bottoms hauling feed ingredients, fertilizer and grain for about 15 years. At one time, he had grown the business to 8-10 trucks, but as of last winter, he semi-retired and now just operates one unit himself, a 2020 Peterbilt 389, with a couple owner-operators leased on to his authority.
